Gray ratsnake

Gray ratsnake
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Pantherophis
Species:
P. spiloides
Binomial name
Pantherophis spiloides
Synonyms
  • Elaphis spiloides
    A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854
  • Elaphe obsoleta spiloides
    — Conant & Collins, 1991
  • Elaphe spiloides
    — Burbrink, 2001
  • Pantherophis obsoletus spiloides
    — D. Schmidt & Kunz, 2005
  • Scotophis spiloides
    — Collins & Taggart, 2008
  • Pantherophis spiloides
    — Pyron & Burbrink, 2009
For the species known as Gray's rat snake, see Coluber ventromaculatus.

The gray ratsnake or gray rat snake (Pantherophis spiloides), also commonly known as the black ratsnake, central ratsnake, chicken snake, midland ratsnake, or pilot black snake, is a species of nonvenomous snake in the genus Pantherophis in the subfamily Colubrinae. The gray ratsnake is one of about ten species within the American ratsnake genus Pantherophis.

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